that tongued belonging

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that tongued belonging

By (author): Marilyn Dumont

From award-winning Métis poet Marilyn Dumont comes that tongued belonging, a collection of poems which search for acceptance in language, culture, love and geographical landscapes. These poems celebrate the humour and tenacity of Indigenous women, lament the death of a mother and recall the degradation of Indigenous women, while challenging accepted ideas of love, age and femininity. that tongued belonging was the winner of the 2007 McNally Robinson Aboriginal Poetry Book of the Year Award and the Anskohk Aboriginal Book of the Year Award.

AUTHOR

Marilyn Dumont

Marilyn Dumont’s poetry has won provincial and national awards. She has been the writer-in-residence at five Canadian universities and the Edmonton Public Library as well as an advisor in the Aboriginal Emerging Writers Program at the Banff Centre. She teaches sessional creative writing for Athabasca University and Native studies and English for the University of Alberta. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta.

Reviews

httpwwwburiedinprintcomareallygoodbrowngirlmarilyndumontMarilyn Dumont articulates touches and settles the nerve of Cree The reader wanders through the patched quilt life of families of communities of relatives and of the Cree nation itself Always we are immersed in ancient Cree ways as expressed in Creeborrowed English Brilliantly and lyrically presented we are forever reminded that Cree culture Cree people have not been eradicated quite the contrary through Dumonts that tongued belonging we celebrate the renaissance the transformation and the continuum of the poetics being and heroism of the CreeLee Maracle author ofBobbi LeeEverywhere windblown leaves turnreveal acimowina to this storysharershe brings reality into beingbrings the heart to the earThank you Marilyn for these giftsLouise Bernice Halfe Sky Dancer author of Blue Marrow